f you’re interested in finding out about the latest news in the world of tech and business, we put together a roundup of the biggest stories from the last 24 hours.
SpaceX capsule for stuck astronauts docks at space station
SpaceX spacecraft lands on ISS space station on September 29th. The SpaceX crew alongside the Crew Dragon Capsule just landed on the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday and will bring home Buch Wilmore and Suni Williams next year, after remaining stuck on the spacecraft.
The Cre-9 Mission has been pushed back due to Hurricane Helene and the severe weather conditions that can be caused by it. NASA wrote about this event “The change allows teams to complete a rehearsal of launch day activities Tuesday night with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, which rolled to Space Launch Complex-40 earlier in the day,”.
After the weeklong journey of the two astronauts, Wilimore and Williams became a monthlong trip to the International Space Station, they are finally a step closer to getting back home. Their return was delayed after an anomaly deemed the Starliner spacecraft too risky for the crew to come back aboard. This led to the two astronauts to remain stuck in space for longer than planned.
However, their safe return home is now possible after the Dragon capsule landed on the ISS yesterday. Onboard SpaceX spacecraft were NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
SpaceX’s aircraft came with two empty seats destined for Williams and for Wilmore to occupy them when they will be returning to Earth, next Year. Even more so, a welcome ceremony was held at the arrival of the two astronauts. On board the ISS there are also other crew members who are at the moment orbiting in those laboratories.
SpaceX declared on X “After today’s successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9’s second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn,” and that “As a result, the second stage safely landed in the ocean, but outside of the targeted area.”
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ByteDance plans a new AI model trained with Huawei chips, sources say
Credits: ByteDanceByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent is planning the development of an AI-trained model that has the purpose of developing an AI model trained primarily with chips from Huawei Technologies.
Since 2022, ByteDance has diversified its production to domestic suppliers of chips and artificial intelligence. And has even started to limit exports of top-notch AI chip technology. ByteDance already introduced the Ascend 910B for less intensive tasks than ever before. Even more so, training artificial intelligence models can be more demanding and can even need huge amounts of data. Those models will be more complex and have the capability of measuring computing parameters more easily and faster.
However, ByteDance did not want to comment on those developments, Michel Hughes, a Tiktok representative responded on behalf of ByteDance that “The entire premise here is wrong. No new model is being developed."
BYD is Recalling 97,000 EVs on Regulatory Failure
Credits: BYD
BYD informed the Chinese Regulator that they are recalling almost 97,000 EVs due to a manufacturing error that involved the steering control unit. This error can lead to fire hazards and risks that the company can not accept, as BYD declared this Sunday.
So, as a result, the Chinese automaker will be recalling the Yuan Plus models along with the Dolphin EV. those electric vehicles were manufactured in November 2022 and December 2023 according to the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR).
Even more so, according China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Dolphin and Yuan Plus were the top-selling electric vehicles in 2023, which brought in total a of 26% of their sales from the year.
The recall of those models was an unexpected event as the electric vehicle car rapidly grew to be one of the largest sellers of EVs and Plug-in Hybrid cars. The company recalled a small batch of Tang plug-in hybrids in 2022 due to a battery pack issue.
A Website Bug Can Lead to Millions of Cars Being Hacked
Credits: Kia
Another piece of news is the vulnerability discovered in the web portal from Kia. This issue allowed attackers to acces and get control over the vehicle function. Even more so, in roughly 30 seconds they could have obtained the attacker's email address, phone number, and personal information, leading to the creation of a second user for the car’s profile.
This discovery was made clear by Curry and another researcher who saw that Kia owners could execute internet-to-vehicle commands and reverse proxy. This gave the ability for attackers to redirect commands to an API and even command execution.
Another research flaw observed was that Kia’s dealer infrastructure had a similar mechanism and proxied requests related to the vehicle lookup. After a new user registered on the Kia website, a link was sent via email to the new users. Using this request, the researchers could have generated an access token that gave the researchers the ability to call the backend dealer APIs.
Sam Curry, security researcher, stated that “The HTTP response contained the vehicle owner’s name, phone number, and email address. We were able to authenticate into the dealer portal using our normal app credentials and the modified channel header. This meant that we could likely hit all other dealer endpoints,”.
Further explaining, “From the victim’s side, there was no notification that their vehicle had been accessed nor their access permissions modified. An attacker could resolve someone’s license plate, enter their VIN through the API, then track them passively and send active commands like unlock, start, or honk,”.
Curry also stated that using those vulnerabilities “pretty much any Kia vehicle made after 2013”.
Elastic Founder Might Return to Open Source Four Years After it Went Proprietary
Credits: Elastic /Co-founder and CTO Shay Banon
Shay Banon, the CTO of Elastic has long been a defining face of the open source space. Even more so, some of the biggest vendors have already switched to a more restrictive “copyleft” license such as the ones Grafana and Element have.
Elastic is the creator of an AI enterprise search and data retrieval engine that carries the name Elasticsearch. Since last month, when the company announced that it was going open-source. This move comes after the company moved to a closed-source license after several years of conflict with Amazon’s cloud, which sold its own managed version of Elasticsearch.
Shay Banon, Elastic co-founder and CTO told in an interview for TechCrunch that “People sometimes think that we changed the license because we were upset with Amazon for taking our open source project and providing it ‘as a service,” and that “To be honest, I was always okay with it, because it’s in the license that they’re allowed to do that. The thing we always struggled with was just the trademark violation.”.
And that “It’s still magical to say ‘open source’ — ‘open source search,’ ‘open source infrastructure monitoring,’ ‘open source security,” – said Bannon.
Fidelity has Reduced X's Valuation by 79% since Musk's Acquisition
Credits: Elon Musk via X post on @elonmusk
X is now worth less than its initial purchase price. The social media company was bought by Elon Musk at a $44 billion valuation and is now worth less than a quarter of the price.
The asset manager company that helped Musk acquire the social network formerly known as Twitter now values its stake in X at approximately $4.19 million, based on its latest disclosures by Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund. Even more so, the fund has lost the value of its holdings in X with 78.7% as of the end of August.
This 78.7% markdown implies that Fidelity has now valued X at approximately $9.4 billion overall.
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Daria Dondea
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September 30, 2024 9:00 AM
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